A battle morph, also known as a combat morph, is a morph used predominantly to fight or attack. The Animorphs each acquired morphs specifically for the purpose of fighting the Yeerks and standing against Hork-Bajir warriors. Each morpher for the most part had a primary and secondary battle morph.

In The Forgotten, the Animorphs (minus Tobias) acquire jaguars to use as their battle morph while trapped in a rainforest; however, the morph is rendered unusable due to the effects of the Sario Rip.

Andalites do not often use a battle morph, since their own bodies are well-equipped for battle, although Ax has sometimes morphed for battle, such as assuming a rattlesnake and cheetah morph when missions required him to fight in front of humans; Visser Three possessed a variety of morphs that he would use to battle the 'Andalite bandits', but he rarely used any of these morphs more than once and showed no sign of a specific favorite.

Although not listed above, many of the battle morphs are shared amongst the Animorphs. For example, all of them possess polar bear and Hork-Bajir morphs. Rachel, Cassie, Tobias, and Ax also have elephant morphs while Marco and Jake have a rhinoceros morph; Jake, Cassie, Marco and Rachel also all have wolf morphs. However, Cassie is the only member of the main Animorphs to lack a unique battle morph of her own.

The five human members of the Animorphs, with their human form juxtaposed with one of their main battle morphs: Rachel-Bear, Marco-Cobra, Tobias-Hawk,Cassie-Wolf, and Jake-Tiger. From the inside cover of Back to Before.